Yet Another Intro to Arabic NLP Arabic Natural Language Processing Otakar Smrˇz InstituteofFormalandAppliedLinguistics CharlesUniversityinPrague DepartmentofMiddleEasternStudies UniversityofWestBohemiainPilsen Autumn 2005 Yet Another Introduction to Arabic NLP Arabic Natural Language Processing Otakar Smrˇz InstituteofFormalandAppliedLinguistics CharlesUniversityinPrague DepartmentofMiddleEasternStudies UniversityofWestBohemiainPilsen Autumn 2005 This is the series of lecture notes to the course on Arabic Natu- ral Language Processing taught in the Winter Term of 2005 at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Uni- versity of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Lecturer Otakar Smrˇz <[email protected]> Website http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/∼smrz/ANLP/ Interest of the Course Natural Language Processing application of engineering to the problems of human languages Computational Linguistics study of linguistic problems using computational methods :) Wewillnotdomuchofthecrucialtheoriesbehindallthat—theory of computation, logic, theoretical linguistics. We will explore how dealingwiththenaturallanguage,esp.Arabic,isimplementedtoday and what other solutions we can expect and contribute to. Lecture Topics 1 Encodings, character sets, fonts, transliterations Unicode, UTF-8, CP-1256, ... Buckwalter transliteration Meta-encodings of ArabTEX Encode::Arabic 2 Data formats, markup, text processing and rendering Plain text versus binary data XML, HTML and LATEX documents Writing in ArabTEX and MS Word Data re-use, transcription, advanced sorting Lecture Topics 1 Encodings, character sets, fonts, transliterations Unicode, UTF-8, CP-1256, ... Buckwalter transliteration Meta-encodings of ArabTEX Encode::Arabic 2 Data formats, markup, text processing and rendering Plain text versus binary data XML, HTML and LATEX documents Writing in ArabTEX and MS Word Data re-use, transcription, advanced sorting Lecture Topics 1 Encodings, character sets, fonts, transliterations Unicode, UTF-8, CP-1256, ... Buckwalter transliteration Meta-encodings of ArabTEX Encode::Arabic 2 Data formats, markup, text processing and rendering Plain text versus binary data XML, HTML and LATEX documents Writing in ArabTEX and MS Word Data re-use, transcription, advanced sorting Lecture Topics 1 Encodings, character sets, fonts, transliterations Unicode, UTF-8, CP-1256, ... Buckwalter transliteration Meta-encodings of ArabTEX Encode::Arabic 2 Data formats, markup, text processing and rendering Plain text versus binary data XML, HTML and LATEX documents Writing in ArabTEX and MS Word Data re-use, transcription, advanced sorting Lecture Topics 1 Encodings, character sets, fonts, transliterations Unicode, UTF-8, CP-1256, ... Buckwalter transliteration Meta-encodings of ArabTEX Encode::Arabic 2 Data formats, markup, text processing and rendering Plain text versus binary data XML, HTML and LATEX documents Writing in ArabTEX and MS Word Data re-use, transcription, advanced sorting Lecture Topics 1 Encodings, character sets, fonts, transliterations Unicode, UTF-8, CP-1256, ... Buckwalter transliteration Meta-encodings of ArabTEX Encode::Arabic 2 Data formats, markup, text processing and rendering Plain text versus binary data XML, HTML and LATEX documents Writing in ArabTEX and MS Word Data re-use, transcription, advanced sorting
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